Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections
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A treatise on Islamic doctrines, being a commentary by ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī (d. 1657) on the commentary of Aḥmad ibn Mūsá Khayālī (d. 1457?) on the commentary of Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al- Taftāzānī (1322-1389?) on al-ʻAqāʾid al-Nasafīyah of Umar ibn Muḥammad al- Nasafī (1068?-1142)
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A commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Abī al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505), one of the most prolific, encyclopedic and learned authors of the 15th cent. on his own book al-Nuqāyah, a manual of Islamic learning and scholarship.
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A manual of arithmetic. It was translated probably from original French at Madrasat al-Handasah “School of Engineering” in Cairo. According to the introduction, this is a second edition. Its Arabic was corrected by Ibrāhīm al-Dusūqī ʻAbd al-Ghaffār (1811 or 12-1882 or 3). A very rare copy.
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A very early printed edition of the Ajurru?mi?yah by the Moroccan grammarian Muh?ammad ibn Muh?ammad ibn A very early printed edition of the Ajurrūmīyah by the Moroccan grammarian Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ājurrūm (1273 or 4-1323), being a condensed treatise on Arabic grammar with elucidations in Latin by the Franciscan scholar and orientalist Tommaso Obizzino (1585-1632).
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A short treatise in thirty chapters on the different aspects of Arabic rhetoric and literary eloquence by the critic, historian and religious scholar Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻUmar ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (1310-1377).
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On the categories and biographies of physicians by the famous biographer and historian of Arab medicine Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim (d. 1269 or 70). Comprises the Arabic text and index of the critical edition published in Königsberg (Germany) in 1884.
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A manual of Arabic grammar comprising four short treatises in two vols. edited by the Lieutenant John Baillie (1772-1833), Professor of Arabic & Persian languages and of Islamic law at the College of Fort William in Calcutta, India.
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A small but concise manual on Arabic grammar, its morphology and syntax, by Na?s?i?f al-Ya?ziji? (1800-1871) one of the early 19th century Syrian/Lebanese famous intellectuals, teachers and poets. He worked at the beginning for 12 years as a secretary for the governor of Lebanon Emir Bashsi?r al-Shiha?bi? (1767-1850) but then devoted his time to teaching and writing.
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From left to right: Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Hazel Scott,
Duke Ellington, Mel Powell